Nathan Rapoport

• Name — Nathan Rapoport נתן רפופורט • Born — 7 November 1911 • Birthplace — Warsaw, Congress Poland • Died — 4 June 1987 • Place of death — New York City, U.S. • Field — Sculpture • Works — Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, Scroll of Fire • Education — Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

Natan Yaakov Rapoport was born in Warsaw, Poland. Rapoport studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1931 to 1936, after which he received a scholarship to study in France and Italy. He fled to the Soviet Union when the Nazi Germans invaded Poland. The Soviets initially provided him with a studio but then forced him to work as a manual laborer. When the war ended, he returned to Poland and later immigrated to Israel. In 1959, he moved to the United States. He lived in New York City until his death in 1987.

His sculptures in public places, with the year they were installed in, include: • Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (1948), bronze, Warsaw, Poland • Memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1976), bronze, at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; a slightly modified replica of the Warsaw monument • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze • The Last March, bronze • Monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1976), bronze, at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove, New York. • Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951), at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel • Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs (1964), at the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA. • Scroll of Fire (1971) in the Forest of the Martyrs near Jerusalem • Liberation (Holocaust memorial) (1985), bronze, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey • Korczak's Last Walk at the Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, NY. • Ghetto Square Monument at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel. https: www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/warsaw-memorial-personal-interpretation.html

• Illustration — Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (1948) in Warsaw, west side • Illustration — Warsaw monument, east side • Illustration — Menorah from the Warsaw monument • Illustration — The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1976), bronze, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel • Illustration — The Last March (1976), bronze, part of the Yad Vashem memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising • Illustration — Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951) at Yad Mordechai, Israel • Illustration — Kibbutz Negba, memorial to the participants in the 1948 battles • Illustration — Scroll of Fire (1971), Forest of the Martyrs near Jerusalem